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To: Bull Snipe

No, but I call Lee’s brilliant decision to split his forces at Chancellorsville an example.

And there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that Pickett’s charge was more Pickett’s idea than Lee’s.


74 posted on 06/04/2018 11:10:41 AM PDT by IronJack (A)
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To: IronJack

Lee’s handling of his forces at Chancellorsville was excellent. But to what end. He won the battle, the victory produced not strategic advantage for the Confederacy. As far as Gettysburg, What evidence? Lee’s original plan was to use of all of Longstreet’s Corp for the attack. That proved impractical, it would have stripped all of the troops facing Lee’s right flank, leaving it exposed. Pickett’s division was chosen because his division was the only major unit of the Army of Northern Virginia that had not been in combat at Gettysburg. The decision to attack Meade’s center on the third day of the battle was Lee’s and Lee’s along.


75 posted on 06/04/2018 11:20:43 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: IronJack
No, but I call Lee’s brilliant decision to split his forces at Chancellorsville an example.

And there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that Pickett’s charge was more Pickett’s idea than Lee’s.

I'll grant you the first one but I've never seen any evidence of the second.

76 posted on 06/04/2018 11:20:59 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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